Books Quote by Beth Revis

“When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a whole bunch…

— Franny Billingsley

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful -…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

— Laura Marling

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

— Harold Bloom

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I…

— Kate Fleetwood

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

— Madhur Bhandarkar

I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when…

— Carolina Herrera

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have…

— Jane Austen

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and…

— Agnes Repplier

“If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impressed or daunted…

— Laura Miller

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman